Quotes About Perspective

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d'articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd'huy? How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today.

Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks." "You might not think so if you were a duck.

The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

The only conclusion he could draw was that without points of reference, a man melts away.

The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it.

Some people live to be seventy, sometimes eighty years old believing there is always something new just around the corner, as they say; in the end they practically have to be killed or at least reduced to a state of serious incapacity to get them to see reason.

it's perfectly possible to live without expecting anything of life; in fact, it's the most common way.

There is no Israel for me.

Il est probablement impossible, pour des gens ayant vécu et prospéré dans un système social donné, d'imaginer le point de vue de ceux qui, n'ayant jamais rien eu à attendre de ce système, envisagent sa destruction sans frayeur particulière.

Life begins at fifty, that's true, inasmuch as it ends at forty.

Yksikään sivilisaatio tai aikakausi ei ole pystynyt kehittämään yksilöissään yhtä paljon katkeruutta. Siitä näkökulmasta katsottuna me elämme ennenkokematonta aikaa. Jos nykyajan henkinen tila on esitettävä yhdellä sanalla, se on epäilemättä katkeruus.

The map is more interesting than the territory.

impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing, and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.

Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature.

Përgjithësisht, grave u mungon humori, prandaj ato e shohin humorin si pjesë të cilësive burrërore".

dès qu'on parle de quitter la France tous les Français trouvent ça formidable c'est un point caractéristique chez eux, même si c'est pour aller au Groenland ils trouvent ça formidable

Eine ideale Lüge besteht aus der Aneinanderreihung verschiedener wahrer Versatzstücke, an denen man bestimmte Auslassungen vornimmt; im Grunde genommen setzt sie sich im Wesentlichen aus Auslassungen in Verbindung mit einigen wohldosierten Übertreibungen zusammen.